Hydropathic spraying device



0a. 13, 1925', 1,556,765 Y 1 W. DECHMANN f y HYDROPATHIC SPRAYING DEVICE Patented Oct. 13, 192.5..

" "l-JN'ITED7 STATES kf Pa'rlNT"v f-OFFICE.'

WILLIAM DECHMANN, F MINNEAIOLIS, MINNESOTA. y

HYDROPATHIG SPRAYING Application filed November 26, 1923.v Serial No. 676,936.

- ;.To all whom it may concern:

tain new and useful Improvements in VBe it known that I, WILLIAM DECHMANN, v

a citizen of the United States, residing at Minneapolis, in the county ,of Hennepin have invented cer- HydropathicL Spraying Devices and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear,

and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the` art to and State of Minnesota,

Jwhich it appertains to make and use the means for producing a maximum surfacev irritation and blood circulation at the surface treated. The device is made readily adjustable so that the concentrated stream of warm or hot water may be shifted from one place to another over person lying, for example, on a slab under the spraying device in the bath or spraying room. "f

In the accompanying drawings,"which illustrate the invention, like characters indicates like parts throughout the several views.

Referring to the drawings:

Fig. l shows the spraying device in transverse vertical section taken approximately on the line 1-1 of Fig. 2, somek of the parts illustrated being in full elevation;

Fig. 2 is a bottom plan view of the spraying device and Fig. 3 is a transverse section taken on the line 8 3 of Fig. 2.

The body of thespraying device is in the ably of brass, and on its underv side is the body of a.

formed with ive concave spherical finely perforated nozzle-forming zones 5, one zone being located at the center of the shell and one Zone being located close to the extremity of each arm. vBy'reference to Fig. l, it wil-lz be noted that the under surface of the shell, from the end of the one` arm to the endof the diametrically opposite arm, is made concave so that the axes of the several perforated Zones 5 converge downwardly towardsy a common point. Also, it will be noted that the perforations in eachzone 5 converge downwardly toward a common point on theprojected axis of. the zone. Vith this arrangement, aswil'l be observed by reference particularly to the dotted lines and arrows on Fig. l, the multiplicity of line streams of water v projecting downward through the perforations of a particular nozzle-forming Zone 5 will first' be concentrated approximately as indicated at a and the fine streams of each zone will be there joined in a single lstream and the several streams of water condensed at a, will, at a point vlower down, towit: approximately at the point where they will be arranged to strike the body of the person being treated, be concentrated into a single stream. y

The spraying head or shell above described should be yieldingly supported so that it may be adjusted for the delivery of the concentrated stream of warm or hot water wherever desired on the body of the person being treated. As an efficient means for accomplishing this result, I have shown a short pipe section 6 tapped into the top of the central portion of the shell 4 and at its upper end-'having a coupling member 7 secured to a coupling member* 8 on a lixed warm or hot water supply pipe 9. These coupling members will preferably be of a type to permit the shell or spraying head to be oscillated universally in all directions and will frictionally hold the said shell in any position in which it may be set. j As a convenient means for adjusting the shell to different points of delivery, its arms are shown asprovided at their ends with eyes or perforated lugs 10 to which adjusting cords 11 are attached. As shown, the cords l1 are provided at their lower ends with balls 12 that serve as comb-ined weights and hand pieces, making it an easy matteito accomplish the adjustments of the sprayer above indicate-d.

rl`his spraying device differs from the ordinar f forno of spraying device or nozzle used, for example, in shower bath devices, in that the latter are universally made to throw a dix/erging spray, while the present device is primarily designed to throw or precipitate a concentrated spray which will produce a maximum irritation and resultant circulation of the blood at the point of delivery on the body of the person being treated. Other vise stated, this device is primarily designed for use as a hydropathic or therapeutic device, and the bath feature is either of no special importance or a decidedly minor and incidental feature. Of course, by placing the body varying distances from the nozzles, a varying extent of surface may be covered by the sprays, with resulting varying intensity at any particular spot. yf course, if the body is placed above the focus of the several nozzles, a'

number of sprays will be delivered and these at several different points.

This device, in actual practice, has been found highly eilicient in giving hydropathic treatments of the character indicated.

.lVhat I claim is:

l. A hydropathic spraying device coinprising a. hollow shell connected to a source of water supply and having a plurality of perforated nozzle-forming spraying zones each arranged to precipitate a plurality of fine streams of water on downwardly converging lines concentrating in approXimately a. single stream.

2. A hydrop-fathic spraying device comprising a hollow shell connected to a source of wait-er supply and provided with a central and a plurality of surrounding circumferentially spaced concave nozzleeforming spraying zones, the perforations of which` downwardly converge toward points on the projected a-Xes of said concave zones.

3. A hydropathic spraying device come prising a hollow shell connected to a source of water supply and provided with a central and a. plurality of surrounding circumferentially spaced concave nozzle-forming spraying zones, the perforations of which downwardly converge toward points on the projected axes of said concave zones, and he several concave zones being set with their axes converging downwardly toward a common point below the central nozzleforming zone.

ln testimony whereof I aiiiX my signature.

VILLIAM DEGHMANN. 

